(The Heart May be Tiny but the World’s Enormous) by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/98514.html) Really, if it hadn’t been for the damn baby, Gong Ji would’ve gotten away with it. Clouds had rolled in and shrouded the heavens, but about an hour previous he’d seen through a thin patch a glimpse of the moon, already […]
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Jan
Looking Outward-Inward
by Hashinaka Choko (橋中蝶子) illustrated by kalong_chan (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/98620.html) A wash of red striped across the canvas: Then a hand, covered to the wrist with splotches of muddled-together paints, came smearing it over, all over, until it mixed in purples and oranges with the color bleeding down the canvas. This girl was a Sunset. It […]
1
Jan
Push/Pull
by Daifuku Hoyako (惰猪腹ほや子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/98986.html) The lid of the teapot made the tiniest of rattles as he tipped it. The stream of tea was dark and fragrant, the most solid thing in the whole house. Everything else—curtains, dishes, skinny cat twining around my ankles—was ghost pale, sun bleached, and lacking even the memory of […]
1
Jan
Plumbing the Depths of Mystery
Part Five Of A ‘Horrors By Gaslight’ Serial Novel In Sixteen Thrilling Parts! by Roumonte Emi (竜主天 蝦) illustrated by sairobi (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/99464.html) 1. Tendrils of fog curled about the guttering gaslamps like leprous fingers; the fetid night air was heavy with salt and damp, this close to the sea. The sea! It suckled at […]
1
Jan
Herr Hall
by Togi Kayako (土宜草子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/99677.html) There’s a widower that lives in my neighborhood, and he has two sons. The older one, Andrew, is everything he wants in a kid: tall, blond, muscled, handsome, good at sports, gets all the girls, etc. The younger one is me. I’m a bit below average height, lanky, I’ve […]
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Jan
Pulling Together
by newtypeshadow (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/100031.html) David and Jordan frowned at the moonlit ranch-style cabin they were staying in for the week. It was too dark out to see the mountains beyond. “Why do we have to share a room?” Jordan groused, dragging his suitcase into the house and down to the basement. The room he and […]
1
Jan
The Mechanical Turk
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/100336.html) Throughout the entire trip — from the hired cab to the docks, on the ferry across the Channel, through all three days’ worth of train travel across what seemed like half the world, to the last ascent by horse-drawn carriage up into the verdant peaks of the Meček Mountains, right […]
1
Jan
Cheesecake and the Art of Political Warfare
by Sakana Sara (魚 サラ) illustrated by haitoku (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/100813.html) [disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any real people and events is coincidental. …yeah, maybe not so coincidental but at least heavily tinkered with. Hell, most of the main cast isn’t even from Earth in this thing, and the ones who […]
1
Jan
The Rabbit and the Wolf
by Eri Mori (絵理燃利) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/100864.html) I first saw him when I was fifteen. I was working as a waiter at my grandfather’s restaurant; a job that had been forced upon me by my parents in an attempt to teach me some responsibility. I hated it at first, but eventually grew to like it–mostly because […]
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Jan
Redux
by Zack (ザックス) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/101179.html) An incessant knocking tore Greg from his sleep, his dreams disappearing like smoke. Groaning into his pillow, he tried to will whoever it was to just go away. It didn’t work. Instead, the pounding on his door turned into a high-pitched ring as the unwanted visitor apparently discovered the doorbell. […]
31
Oct
The Pond by the Well
She looked young, with long dark hair and uncovered breasts, and loops of what looked like blue and green silk floating around her without actually clothing her. She was suspended within the water perfectly, like a fish, neither fighting her weight nor her buoyancy, and she smiled at Emelie like she had a secret she was dying to share. She spread her arms, long and pale, glittering with strange jewelry, and make a beckoning gesture. Emelie could not see her legs.
31
Oct
A Life in Six Payments
by Daifuku Hoyako (惰猪腹 ほや子) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/95711.html) “I’ve changed my mind,” Mari said while she tried to negotiate the curving on-ramp at seventy. Her shoulder angel, who had sounded like Bridget for the past forty years, told her to slow down before she killed someone and stomped on its imaginary passenger brake. Her shoulder devil […]
31
Oct
Sun Wolf
by Kagamino Kage (鏡乃 影) illustrated by quaedam (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/95863.html) The song-weaver sang to fill up the darkness of the Chasm. She sang the old tales of the twilight twins of bygone age, of how they had devoured the sun to blackened stump; how then, mad with the fire inside them, they had fallen upon one […]
31
Oct
Julia Child is Cooking Your Shoes
by Tougyo (闘魚) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/96433.html) All Florence wanted was a sandwich. Groceries in hand, ready to settle in for a long period of boxing up some things and unboxing others, she was ready to begin her efforts with delicious, delicious food. Maybe it was in her head–the kitchen had always been the starting place, the […]
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Oct
All The Way
by Tsukizubon Saruko (月図凡然る子) illustrated by by Sakana Sara (魚 サラ) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/96796.html) They found Lily’s body on September 8th, late in the morning. It was a Monday, and Mrs. Packard had to open the copy shop where she worked, much earlier than Lily was supposed to go to school; but she got a phone […]
